HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Harm Reduction, Public Health, Needle Sharing
3 Feb 2020
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Thus, addressing addiction is a serious concern. Different responses are beneficial to different people and not all treatment will work for all people. Can forced treatment work: most people are mandated into treatment, ex, committed crime went to drug court and have ultimatum treatment or prison, prevention (sometimes called public health) Emphasis on preventing / delaying substance us, enabling individuals to respond to substance & addiction: universal prevention (directed at gen pop, selective prevention (targeting those at risk, youth. Indicated prevention (for people who are already addicted: not preventing, trying to prevent problems further down the line, ex, fighting stigma towards addicts. Combines individual focus (eg. teaching psychosocial skills) and environmental alteration (eg. community coalition building: harm reduction. Not possible to eliminate addiction or substance use concentrate on impacts: examples. Philosophy: treatment doesn"t always work and dead people can"t recover from addiction . Mitigating harm reduction: needle sharing, safe sites. May act to reduce overall costs to society.
